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In December 2017, New York City’s City Council has passed a bill that seeks to ensure transparency of algorithms used for decision-making by the police, judiciary and other government agencies in the city. The bill’s scope, however, is limited to the algorithms used by the Public Administration, not addressing uses in the private sector. The…

TinkerCAD, Forno solar da Pleno Sol, GNU Image Manipulation Program,Programa Territórios Sustentáveis. These are some initiatives that in an innovative way, and with the use of different systems and tools, contribute to the process of emancipation and transformation of precarious realities. They are conceptually called social technologies. This term is the product of a cumulative…

Most website admins have always tried to profit through their pages, one way or another, for various reasons: whether to make an actual profit or simply to maintain it online. It has been that way with direct advertisement, adwares, spywares, sponsored posts and premium content. It just so happens that, with innovation and new technologies,…

Organization The Superior Labor Court, in Brasília, was PALCO of the I International Congress of Law and Technology. The event, organized by the Group of Research and Development in Law and Technology – UnB and the Legal Labs, happened between November 23rd and 24th and counted on over 700 participants. In the occasion, there were…

Introduction The current US President Donald Trump’s warrant has been the subject of controversy since its begining. The afternoon of Nov. 21 was no different with the announcement by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ajit Pai, that the Trump government wants to change the rules governing net neutrality in the country –…

Between 14 and 17 November, the VII Fórum da Internet no Brasil (FIB) was held in the city of Rio de Janeiro/RJ. Organized annually by the Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil (CGI.br), the event serves as preparation for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), which is an initiative of the UN General Secretariat. The purpose…

About Freedom on the Net Report Freedom on the Net is a Freedom House project consisting of cutting-edge analysis, fact-based advocacy, and on-the-ground capacity building. The Institute for Research on Internet & Society – IRIS and researchers from GNET (Study Group at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais’ Law School) have worked alongside Brazilian rapporteurs in…

Organization Between 8 and 9 November, two representatives of the Internet & Society Reference Institute participated in the Global Symposium on Artificial Intelligence & Inclusion, organized at the Museum of Tomorrow (Rio de Janeiro) by the Institute of Technology and Society of Rio de Janeiro (ITS Rio) and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet &…

Nigeria is home to 149.5 Million Internet Subscribers, out of which 92 million are active subscribers. MTN with 58,121, 427 subscribers, Glo with 37,270,100 subscribers, Airtel with 34,336,802 subscribers and 9mobile with 19,621,806 subscribers. This makes Nigeria one of the largest internet user populations in Sub Saharan Africa. The Alliance for Affordable Internet has ranked…

The Law on Access to Information (LAI), promulgated in 2011 (No. 12.527), and the Decree establishing the Social Participation Policy and the National Social Participation System of 2014 (No. 8.243) put the public ouvidorias (ombudsman’s office) in greater evidence within the Brazilian political field. After all, from that moment on, greater responsibilities were instituted and,…